Reich/Richter - Asko|Schönberg

Reich/Richter

In Reich/Richter, two of the greatest living artists in their own disciplines join forces: Steve Reich, founder of minimal music, and Gerhard Richter, who belongs to the top of post-war visual art. The Dutch premiere at the Minimal Music Festival in 2023 sold out twice in no time.

Set designer Theun Mosk designed the special decor in which filmmaker Corinna Belz brings Richter's paintings to life in moving images. You see explosions of colour evolve into horizontal stripes and vice versa, through a process of dividing, mirroring and repeating. Reich uses the same technique in his score. Behind the projection, the musicians are sometimes visible and sometimes not. Image and sound are uniquely interwoven in this way. In addition to Reich/Richter, two famous 70s classics by Reich are also heard: Clapping Music and Four Organs .

In collaboration with Unusual Suspects

'A spectacle of form along all the colours of the rainbow. The supple music seemed to encourage the patterns to multiply kaleidoscopically, and could sound intensely red or pale blue, à la Richter's brush. Beautiful.' – het Parool

'Colourblind and intoxicated you know: minimal music is a physical experience.' – de Volkskrant (★★★★☆)

'The opening concert Reich/Richter by Asko|Sch��nberg sold out so quickly that an extra performance was planned.' - NRC (★★★★☆)